Thank you for a great response on the actual reasons behind why I won't be able to "tune" my car, it makes complete sense. But you did get a few things wrong, I'm not that young and my dad unfortunately isn't just giving me his car. I'm also not interested in "beating" people in a race, as that is gay as all hell. My performance concerns would be more of personal concern of how much fun the car is to drive for me. At this point if I go the bimmer route (which is more than likely) I'll probably get a chip and MAYBE a intake and exhaust (if it were under a grand). But of course I will be on the look out if something extra performance wise comes out on the market for my car. Additionally I could spend the money I would have potentially spent on a turbo instead on something in the looks department.